sages and the earlier teachers; and in the doing of this, pieces of silk must be used.
11. In all the cases of setting forth the offerings, it was required to have the accompaniments (of dancing and singing). When there were any events of engrossing interest in a state (at the time), these were omitted.
12. When there was the accompaniment of music on a great scale, they proceeded immediately to feast the aged.
13. At all examinations in the suburban schools, the rule was to select the best and mark out the most talented. The pupils might be advanced for their virtue, or commended for something they had accomplished, or distinguished for their eloquence[1]. Those who had studied minor arts were encouraged and told to expect a second examination[2]. If they (then) had one of the three things (above mentioned), they were advanced to a higher grade, according to their several orders, and were styled "Men of the schools." They were (still, however,) kept out of the royal college[3], and could not receive the cup from the vase restricted to the superior students.
14. On the first establishment of schools (in any state), when the instruments of music were
- ↑ See paragraphs 2-4, pp. 231-233.
- ↑ These minor arts, it is understood, were such as medicine and divination.
- ↑ The name for this college here perhaps indicates that on reaching it, all from the other schools were "on the same level." The youths would appear to have passed into it with a festive ceremony. The "suburban schools" were those in the note on p. 346, with the addition of the "Eastern Kiâo" (東膠), which it is not easy to distinguish from "the eastern school," already mentioned.
